PSN Outage: Day 10.5 – Sony’s Press Conference and More Drew Wilson | April 30, 2011 After a long and, for many, painful 11 days, Sony has held a long awaited press conference to explain what happened during the outage, whether or not credit cards were stolen, who all is involved in fixing this issue and when the network will be back up and running.
PSN Outage: Day 10 – FBI, Congress and 22 State Attorneys General Get Involved Drew Wilson | April 30, 2011 It is now day 10 of the infamous Sony PSN (PlayStation Network) outage. Already, 5 countries are involved including the US, UK, a city in China, Australia and Canada. Now, it seems the US has increased its involvement in this outage. The FBI, Congress and 22 State Attorneys General are going to be joining the …
PSN Outage: Day 9.5 – Sony Hit With Second Class Action Lawsuit Drew Wilson | April 29, 2011 It was only two days ago that we learned of the first class action lawsuit against Sony in the wake of the PSN outage. Now, two days later, we are learning of a second class action lawsuit filed against Sony. This time, this was filed in a Los Angeles court.
PSN Outage: Day 9 – Sony Threatened With Fines As World Gov’t Involvement Increases Drew Wilson | April 29, 2011 Sony, Visa and a few others have been trying to reassure PSN (PlayStation Network) that users credit card information is still safe in spite of unverified reports that money is already being stolen from customers. As we enter day 9, we are learning that not only are more governments getting involved, some are even taking …
PSN Outage: Day 8 – Governments Get Involved Over Data Breach Fears Drew Wilson | April 28, 2011 Day 8 of the PSN outage. It appears that fears have been intensifying over the massive data breach where 70-77 million credit cards were stolen. After a class action lawsuit was launched against Sony, both the US and UK governments have expressed concern over this incident amid the growing concern over the lasting effects of …
PSN Outage: Day 7.5 – Sony Hit with First Class Action Lawsuit Drew Wilson | April 27, 2011 For those who have been watching the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage story, it was likely only a matter of time before someone would be resorting to litigation. Well, it’s finally happened in a Northern District of California.
PSN Outage: Day 7 – 70 Million Users Now on Fraud Alert Drew Wilson | April 27, 2011 It is now day 7, one week, since the PSN outage began. At this point, people are now calling this outage more of a disaster since it is definitely apparent that over 70 million accounts have been compromised – this includes credit card information.
PSN Outage: Day 5 – No End in Sight Drew Wilson | April 25, 2011 We are now on day 5 of the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage. Reports are at least as grim as a few days ago, if not, worse. If Sony ever wanted to test the patience of their gamers, this was certainly one way of doing it.